Week 3: Experimental Sound Interfaces & New Materials

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is a protocol standardized in 1983 originally used for synchronization of devices. It is and has continued to be a dominate protocol for control interfaces, device to device communication, and computer to device/interface communication. MIDI can provide up to 128 values aka 7-bit data.

OSC

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a messaging system for computers and devices that transports data over a network layer. It can transport messages containing 32-bit integers, 32-bit floats, strings, and other types of data. This data can be transported over wired or wireless networks using UDP packets.